Background
Rountree, Asa was born on August 9, 1927 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of John Asa and Cherokee Jemison (Van de Graaff) Rountree.
Rountree, Asa was born on August 9, 1927 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of John Asa and Cherokee Jemison (Van de Graaff) Rountree.
University of Alabama (Bachelor of Arts, 1949). Harvard University (Bachelor of Laws, magna cum laude, 1954).
Worked at Maynard, Cooper & Gale, Professional Corporation (Birmingham, Alabama) specializing in General Civil Practice. Litigation, Municipal Bonds, Insurance, Public Utility, Corporation, Banking, Real Estate, Trusts and Estates, Taxation, Antitrust, Securities, Labor, Environmental and Bankruptcy Law. Trials in all State and Federal Courts.
Admitted to the bar, 1954, Alabama.
1962, New New York
Phi Beta Kappa. Member: Alabama State Bar.
The Association of the Bar of the City of New New York New York State and American (Chairman, Litigation Section, 1980-1981) Bar Associations.
American Law Institute.
Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers. American Bar Foundation. Maynard, Cooper & Gale, Professional Corporation, regularly represents a variety of local, national and international business entities, as well as many charities and individuals.
Its work encompasses virtually all aspects of legal practice, including litigation, corporate law, banking and commercial law, real estate law, estates and trusts, antitrust municipal and industrial financing, taxation, securities law, labor law, environmental law, bankruptcy law, intellectual property law and entertainment law.
Board directors University Alabama Law School Foundation. Member of American Bar Association (chairman litigation section 1980-1981), American College Trial Lawyers, American Law Institute, Association Bar City of New York, New York State Bar Association, Alabama Bar Association, American Bar Foundation, Mountain Brook Club (Birmingham), River Club (New York City).
Married Elizabeth Rhodes Blue, August 11, 1951 (deceased). Married Helen Hill Updike, October 10, 1998.